Packers' quarterback Aaron Rodgers said the presenting bit he did with Brett Favre Saturday night at the NFL honors show in New Orleans was scripted or feigned awkwardness, not real awkwardness. »Read Full Blog Post

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I know, liberal dude, you dropped some dough on an autographed football and you are a hero worshipper. I'll cut you some slack. farve has no class, and has shown it repeatedly through words and actions. when he shows contrition, let the healing begin. until then, banished!

Thompson fazed Brett out by drafting virtually NO help for the franchise QB, and an older one at that!. He let go BOTH Wahle & Rivera in the same year about the same time Winters retired. Half of Brett's line was gone! Except for Javon Walker, he added no other significant receivers or running backs. He drafted the mediocre Hawk on defense rather than current All-Pro tight end Vernon Davis of San Francisco. Free agents Woodson & Harris were both obtained for the defense.

Are you saying Favre didn't have the right to continue playing? He once again resurrected a team, the (4-12) Jets, and lead them to a (9-7) season before injuring his arm. Still, a 5 game improvement!He should've been in the super bowl in his 1st year with the Vikings. A 51 yard field goal attempt to win it was lost when the Vikings had 12 men on the field and cost them 5 yards, leading to the interception by Brett trying to get the 5 yards back. I'm assuming Brett wasn't the 12th man. Also, they had lost home field when the Bears blocked an early extra point by Longwell which lead to an overtime loss in the last regular season game instead of another last play victory by Brett.

Favre didn't just trash A-ROD when he left, he trashed Packer nation....if he sincerely apologized for the vindictive way he behaved then, he would probably be forgiven...but Favre made these decisions, and there are consequences for those decisions

time heals all wounds...many of us have been brINT bashing since the guy left in a huff, rooted against him while he wore the purple and still find delight in his sexting antics with Sterger...BUT...BUT...at the end of the day you simply MUST respect the guy for what he did for the Packers ON THE FIELD...your feelings towards him as a Man are your own thing, but respect for a HOF player who helped put Green Bay back on the football map should be given...its been long enough for me to put aside the ill will and if I could afford it I would travel to any sort of party they held for brINT...

no alter as far as I'm concerned. I don't worship these guys, but they are fun to watch and root for. that being said, why give him a free pass for all of the negative words and deeds toward the gb organization, when he hasnt shown any contrition. guy is a self absorbed classless athlete, why should we treat him differently than what he is? Those who are defending him are the ones at the altar.

Are you Braunislying? Whatever, let it go. You'll be happier. It's only sports. Maybe you needed to live through the '70's and '80's to appreciate how much Brett Favre means to The Green Bay Packers. I'll shake his hand any day. Rodgers too. We have been blessed.

I know Favre gets a lot of credit for bringing the Packers back, but it's a little overblown. The QB position always gets too much blame and too much praise. Anyone here remember Reggie White? It wasn't just his play. He made Green Bay an acceptable organization to a lot of players who wouldn't have considered it earlier. And the great game he had when they won the Super Bowl with his two succesive sacks that pushed the Pats out of field goal range can't be ignored. It was a team win, but too often gets credited to one guy.

I suspect that Brett is staying away partly because of embarrassment with the fans, partly because of anger towards MM and TT. Although I believe they had to let him go, he still had some good football in him. We all know that TT has made something of a bad habit of letting good players get away because he didn't want to pay what they were worth. It has done harm to the team. On the other hand, it's hard to understand why he paid to keep DD another year.

I am against this! Berty played for the Vikings, and thus FOREVER betrayed the Pack! There can be no going back, not now, now ever. People forget how perilously close he was to leading the hated Vikings to the Super Bowl. Had they done that, they probably would have won. That would have created an environment so toxic, that 2010 would be not possible.Detractors will point out what “he did for Green Bay.” It is precisely because of his importance in Packers history that make such crimes so heinous, and so completely beyond even the suggestion of forgiveness or reconciliation. No figure who came to personify a franchise had ever played for a hated rival for the express purpose of foiling his prior team in such a manner. Of course, such sentiments overstate the importance of Number Four in the renaissance of the Packers, downplaying the role of Bob Harlan, Ron Wolf, Reggie White, and above all Mike Holmgren, without whom the quarterback may have never risen out of obscurity in the first place.People forget all this. People also forget the toxic, poisonous environment that man created for Thompson, McCarthy and even Rodgers, plunging the entire organization in a dysfunctional environment of chaos. People overlook the sort of brass balls it required for Thompson and McCarthy to stare into NFL mortality, with the cold, steely eyes of an assassin, and say “No,” and to then brave the firestorm of controversy that ensued. Of course, it then required Rodgers to put forth an unparalled, superhuman effort, culminating in a Super Bowl Victory, an MVP award, and all around the greatest career stats ever enjoyed by a quarterback to nullify this toxic environment that this man created. And in spite of it all, some turncoats and malcontents still express dissension in our midst even today. Very simply put, Berty Judas instigated an all-out Civil War in Packerland that still wages on in some pockets of resistance.For this, he must NEVER be forgiven.

Oh, woe is me. Brett Favre ruined my life. Oh, wait, anyone who posted that amazing rant about "Berty Judas" has no life. Sounds like he has been saving this up for years and they just let him near a computer for good behaviour.

The Vikings winning the Super Bowl would have created a toxic environment so severe, so distracting, that it just would not have been possible. Remember when kids were cursing Rodgers, the whole firestorm when it all first went down? It would have been that on steroids.

Wolf - Sorry that you are so worked up after all these years, that is really sad. I too was very sick of the Favre retire/not retire routine and was in full agreement with what Thompson did. It took alot of guts. I also lost most of my respect for Favre at the time and that has not changed.

The bottom line is Favre was exactly what the Packers needed then. My wife always could not understand why I was so hard on Farve and his decisions. Rodgers is head and shoulders above what ever Farve was and I would take him any time over old #4. However, Brett may be a egomaniac and it is always about Favre but the Pack said so long and he said fine - I will go to NYC and make $12 Million.

Brett as a person = jerk. Brett as a Packer = great. There will be no contrition on his part ever but he still deserves to be honored as a player.

Skwinters. 'All these years?' It was not all that long ago That I am able to hold a grudge shows that I do not have the intellect of a gnat, or for that matter the docile nature of a lamb to be slaughtered. Take out one errant throw, the Vikings would probably have won the Super Bowl.Remember hm tellng the Bears to beat us. Remember that 'real Packer fan crap? Remember him smirking on the Vikings sideline in 09.Wir mussen das niemals vergessen! NIEMALS!

the guys is a classless self absorbed person. that being said, if he showed contrition toward the organization, then we can move on. until then, let him get his jersey retired at the metrodome with a picture of his junk.

"it is what it is," meaning, it's more important to get the brinks truck than it is to structure the contract so that he can be surrounded by superior talent. ah, money is god. always will be.

indeed, it may be time for a couple of millionaire footballers to heal, but when are packer fans going to be healed of the sickness of two straight playoff meltdowns? seriously, i thought i was watching the lions.

"Well, it kind of is what it is, as far as that goes," Rodgers said. "The team, when they are ready to talk contract, we will get there when we get there. Obviously, you got to have guys around you compete and win every year. We'll see what happens with some of the free agents that we have. When that time comes, we'll get a deal done. I'm not worried about that. I think the Packers want to keep me around for a little while longer and I'd love to be a Packer for life."

here you go. you seem to have forgotten to include some of his quote.

good to see rodgers' head is cool and level and his focus is on the greater good of the team.